Book One of The Kaelthorne Saga
Blade & Bloom
Cover art in progress — still subject to revision before launch.
A thief who's never once regretted stealing. An innocent man one morning from hanging for a murder he didn't commit. Neither of them chose the other — the road did.
The Book
When the Heartbloom wakes, so does everything sleeping beneath it.
Kentero steals for a living, and he's good at it — quick hands, quicker mouth, no plan past the next window. Zamozek is a watchman wrongly condemned for a murder he didn't commit, with nothing left between him and the gallows but the night.
Then a thief picks the wrong cell to break into, on the wrong night, for entirely selfish reasons of his own — and two men who were never meant to meet are suddenly the only thing standing between each other and the end.
An ancient sword that shouldn't still exist. A tree waking up after a hundred years of silence. And a growing list of people who want them both dead before they figure out why.
Blade & Bloom is a high fantasy hero's-journey novel told through two points of view — a thief who trusts nothing but his own hands, and a man relearning how to trust anything at all.
The Saga
Book One of an ongoing series
Blade & Bloom opens The Kaelthorne Saga, named for the heirloom sword at its center — the first of a planned series set in a world where magic is only just beginning to return after a long, quiet absence.
Details on future installments will post here as they're ready to share.
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Blade & Bloom is in production now.
Cover art, final edits, and a release date are all in progress. Reach out to be notified the moment it's live.
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